A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy.

No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a few minutes.

Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like.

The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered.

I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?

Use the new technologies for the old purposes.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

I like if you're reading something, and they're saying something you always thought, but they're putting it in the exact right way

I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.

The only person to look out for me is me. I've got to make sure Corey Clark is all right.

So shines a good deed... in a weary world.

My first book was the most successful debut novel in the UK ever and every one of my books has reached number one in the UK. Clearly the British know brilliance when they see it.

The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.